Famous quotes by Psychologists

"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I think education is both using and improving knowledge, and that changes the whole picture"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Everybody needs one essential friend"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced!"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Every crisis offers you extra desired power"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

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